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8 ('17): 330. Poetry, 12 ('18): 155. See also Book Review Digest, 1919, 1920, 1921.

+Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews+--(+Mrs. William Shankland Andrews+)--short-story writer, novelist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*The Perfect Tribute. 1906. The Militants. 1907. *The Lifted Bandage. 1910. The Counsel Assigned. 1912. The Marshal. 1912. The Three Things. 1915. Joy in the Morning. 1919. His Soul Goes Marching On. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 27 ('08): 155. Nation, 85 ('07): 58. See also Book Review Digest, 1912, 1915, 1919.

+Mary Antin (Mrs. Amadeus W. Grabau)+--writer.
Born at Polotzk, Russia, 1881. Came to America in 1894. Educated in American schools. Studied at Teachers' College, Columbia, 1901-2, and at Barnard College, 1902-4.
Her second book attracted attention for its fresh and sympathetic treatment of the experiences of immigrants coming to this country.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
From Polotzk to Boston. 1899. *The Promised Land. 1912. They Who Knock at Our Gates. 1914.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Acad. 83 ('12): 637. Am. M. 77 ('14): Mar., p. 64 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 584. J. Educ. 81 ('15): 91. Lond. Times, Oct. 10, 1912: 420. Outlook, 104 ('13): 473 (portrait).

+Walter Conrad Arensberg+--poet.
Illustrates in his Poems, 1914, and Idols, 1916, conversion from the old forms of verse to the new. Cf. also Others, 1916.
For studies, cf. Untermeyer; also Dial, 69 ('20): 61 Poetry, 8 ('16): 208.

+Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Mrs. George H. Bowen Atherton)+--novelist.
Born at San Francisco, 1859. Great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin. Educated in private schools. Has lived much abroad.
Mrs. Atherton's work is very uneven, but is interesting as reflecting different aspects of social and political life in this country.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Doomswoman. 1892. Patience Sparhawk and Her Times. 1897. *American Wives and English Husbands. 1898. (Revised edition, 1919; under the title Transplanted.) The Californians. 1898. *Senator North. 1900. The Aristocrats. 1901. *The Conqueror. 1902. The Splendid Idle Forties. 1902. Rezanov. 1906. *Ancestors. 1907. Perch of the Devil. 1914. California--an Intimate History. 1914. The White Morning. 1918. Sisters-in-law. 1921. Sleeping Fires. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cooper. Courtney, W.L. The Feminine Note in Fiction. 1904. Halsey. (Women.) Harkins. (Women.) Underwood.
Bookm. 12 ('01): 541, 542 (portrait); 30 ('09): 356. Forum, 58 ('17): 585.

+Mary Hunter Austin (Mrs. Stafford W. Austin)+--novelist, dramatist.
Born at Carlinville, Illinois, 1868. At the age of nineteen went to live in California. B.S., Blackburn University, 1888. Lived on the edge of the Mohave Desert where she is said to have worked like an Indian woman, housekeeping and gardening. Studied the desert, its form, its weather, its lights, its plants. Also studied Indian lore extensively, contributing the chapter on Aboriginal Literature to the Cambridge History of American Literature (IV [Later National Literature, III], 610ff.).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Land of Little Rain. 1903. *The Basket Woman: Fanciful Tales for Children. 1904. Isidro. 1905. The Flock. 1906. Santa Lucia. 1908. Lost Borders. 1909. *The Arrow Maker. 1911. (Play.) (Also in Drama, 1915.) *A Woman of Genius. 1912. The Green Bough. 1913. The Lovely Lady. 1913. Love and the Soul-Maker. 1914. The Man Jesus. 1915. The Ford. 1917. Outland. 1919. (Originally published under the pseudonym, "Gordon Stairs," London, 1910.) No. 26 Jayne Street. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
Am. M. 72 ('11): 178 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 586 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 53 ('12): 698 (portrait.) Freeman, 1 ('20): 311. New Repub. 24 ('20): 151. R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 241 (portrait). Review, 3 ('20): 73. Sunset, 43 ('19): 49 (portrait).

+Irving (Addison) Bacheller+ (New York, 1859)--novelist.
His outstanding books are:
Eben Holden. 1900. A Man for the Ages. 1919. (Lincoln, the hero.)
For bibliography, see Who's Who in America.

+Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon)+--novelist.
Born at Stamford, Connecticut, 1876. A.B., Smith College, 1898.
Mrs. Bacon has made a special study of child life.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Smith College Stories. 1900. The Imp and the Angel. 1901. Fables for the Fair. 1901. The Madness of Philip. 1902. Middle Aged Love Stories. 1903. *Memoirs of a Baby. 1904. The Domestic Adventurers. 1907. *Biography of a Boy. 1910. While Caroline Was Growing. 1911. Margarita's Soul. 1909. (Under the pseudonym "Ingraham Lovell.") Open Market. 1915. When Binks Came. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Am. M. 69 ('10): 765, 766 (portrait). Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 191 (portrait). Bookm. 27 ('08): 159. Critic, 40 ('02): 332 (portrait), 335. Outlook, 78 ('04): 288 (portrait).

+Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson")+--man of letters.
Born at Lansing, Michigan, 1870. B.S., Michigan Agricultural College, 1889. Studied law and literature at University of Michigan; LL.D., 1917. On the Chicago Record, 1892-7. Managing editor of McClure's Syndicate, 1897-8, and associate editor of McClure's Magazine, 1899-1905. On the American Magazine, 1906-15. Director of Press Bureau of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris, 1919.
His studies of country life under the pseudonym "David Grayson" are widely popular.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adventures in Contentment. 1907. Adventures in Friendship. 1910. The Friendly Road. 1913. Hempfield. 1915. Great Possessions. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Acad. 86 ('14): 137. Am. M. 78 ('14)138. Bookm. 43 ('16): 1 (portrait), 394. Bookm. (Lond.) 39 ('11): 290; 47 ('14): 107. McClure's, 24 ('04): 108, 110 (portrait).

+John Kendrick Bangs+ (New York, 1862-1922)--humorist.
Published some sixty volumes of prose sketches, verses, stories, and